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Acadians accused act of cession Antonio de Ulloa arrival Attorney-General Aubry Aubry's authority Balize Bienville captain Catholic Majesty cause Chickasaws chief Choctaws Christian Majesty citizens colonists colony command commerce court D'Abbadie declared decree despatch Destréhan Duke Duke of Choiseul English execution expenses expulsion favor flag force Foucault French government French troops frigate Gayarre Grand-Pré Havana hundred Illinois Indians informed inhabitants of Louisiana insurrection Intendant Commissary Kerlerec King of France King of Spain King's Lafrénière land laws letter livres Louis Louis XV Loyola Marquis of Vaudreuil Masan ment merchants Milhet minister Mississippi nation necessary negroes Noyan O'Reilly obliged Orleans paper petition planters population posts powers present prison privileges province punished received remain revolution river Rochemore Rouvillière royal sent ships slaves soldiers Sovereign Lord Spaniards Spanish governor Spanish officers Spanish troops Superior Council take possession tion town treaty of cession vessels Villeré wrote
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Page 337 - ... afford interesting proofs of the Spartan simplicity which existed in the colony. Thus the furniture of the bedroom of Madam Villere, who was the wife of one of the most distinguished citizens of Louisiana, and the grand-daughter of De Lachaise, who came to the colony, in 1723, as ordaining commissary,, was described as consisting of a cypress bedstead, three feet wide by six in length, with a mattress of corn shucks and one of feathers on the top, a bolster of corn shucks, and a coarse cotton...
Page 103 - ... of the colony; and that, finally, all these grants, though not confirmed by the French authorities, would be confirmed by his Catholic Majesty.
Page 84 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Page 84 - In order to re-establish peace on solid and durable foundations, and to remove for ever all subject of dispute with regard to the limits of the British and French territories on the continent of America...
Page 200 - ... is the solidity of thrones; both are fed by liberty and competition which are the nursing mothers of the state, of which the spirit of monopoly is the tyrant and stepmother. Without liberty there are but few virtues. Despotism breeds pusillanimity and deepens the abyss of vices. Man is considered as sinning before God only because he retains his free will.
Page 177 - I command for the king of France, and, at the same time, I govern the colony as if it belonged to the king of Spain.
Page 330 - But as the king, whose character is well known, is always inclined to be mild and clement, he has ordered O'Reilly to be informed that his will is that a lenient course be pursued in the colony, and that expulsion from it be the only punishment inflicted on those who have deserved a more severe one.
Page 64 - The administration of the Marquis of Vaudreuil was long and fondly remembered in Louisiana, as an epoch of unusual brilliancy, but which was followed up by corresponding gloom. His administration, if small things may be compared with great ones, was for Louisiana, with regard to splendor, luxury, military display, and expenses of every kind, what the. reign of Louis XIV. had been for France. He was a man of patrician birth and high breeding, who liked to live in a manner worthy of his rank. Remarkable...
Page 352 - It will be dictated by our hearts, whose inspirations an obedient hand is ready to record. Seven millions of royal paper constituted all the currency of this colony and the fortune' of its citizens ; the total withdrawing of this capital, the payment of which his Majesty suspended by an edict of October 1759, has reduced the province of Louisiana to the most deplorable situation. We shall not undertake to enter into a detail of the calamities, of the ruined fortunes, of the downfall of families,...
Page 102 - Orleans, as will appear by copies of said acts hereunto annexed ; I write you this letter to inform you that my intention is, that, on the receipt of it, and of the documents thereto annexed, whether they are handed to you by officers of his Catholic Majesty, or in a direct line by the French ships to which they are...